Friday, June 6, 2014

June 2nd, 2014 - Weekly Letter

Family,

Hey my great ole loved ones!!! I can't believe all the crazy
things that have been happening out there in Utah. How crazy that everyone is pretty much
separated! Jon is in Moab,
I'm here in Mexico,
Emma and mom in Manti, and so I guess that means dad and Sonic and Cupcake are
back at home?! haha nice....oh and that's awesome that I have a new little
cousin. When I return from the mission he won't be so little though! But yeah,
and summer's starting for everyone! How exciting. I just have to say....it's
HOT here!!! So the hottest it got here last week was 39 degrees celsius, which
is about 102 degrees farhenheit. And everybody is saying that it still isn't
even summer.....it gets even hotter in the next 2 months....so pray for me so
that I don't melt while on the streets.

But yeah...so Monday last week was a very hard day.....very disappointing.
So we got the same reference from like 3 people, which was an old widow, and so
we were all excited to visit her because the people that gave us the reference
were telling us that she would be the next baptism and that she was super cool,
and so we arrived......and she rejected us. Yep.....didn't want anything to do
with us. So after that I was thinking to myself, well at least we have the new
investigator named Hermano Loya, and then literally 10 minutes later we found
him on the street and he said that we couldn't visit him anymore because he
didn't want us to. So that night I went back to the house just plain out
depressed. But apart from that, we had a zone activity and we played dodge ball
and soccer and this game where we had to pop the balloons that were attached to
each other's ankles, so that was fun.

Tuesday was also pretty hard in the beginning because it is just
super hot and we are very low on investigators so we were pretty much in the
street all day. At the end of the day though we had a really cool lesson with a
new investigator named Brillanda. We talked to her about God and her relationship
with him and everything like that and it was an amazing lesson. It was a good
way to end the day.

On Wednesday we ended up having a little more fun, and one of the
members gave Elder Mendoza and I a sombrero. I now wear it not everyday, but
when I want because it does protect our faces from the sun, but at the same
time it makes my head and hair super sweaty.....ugghhhh. So on Wednesday night Elder Mendoza got a call
from the assistants! He got called to be zone leader again for the last little
bit of his mission, so we got transfers.

So Thursday we spent the morning finishing packing for Elder
Mendoza and then at about 11:00 a.m. we went to the offices for the transfers.
Also, one of the other elders from Lagos, Elder
Neuman, got transfers, so the other elders from Lagos went to the offices too. So, I received
my new companion named Elder Newman, not the Elder Neuman that had transfers
from Lagos, but
Newman with a W. Elder Newman has like 6 1/2 months in the mission, and me and
him are both senior companions......co-senior companions. It's kind of
interesting because pretty much that means that neither of us is over the
other, and so we share the cell phone and the keys and everything and we work
equally, so that is pretty cool. Elder Newman is super cool too! He is from Sandy/Orem
Utah, and graduated one year before me! But also on Thursday we had a ward
party, the ward splitting party, and so we went and we pretty much just ate
food and chatted with the members and all of that kind of stuff, so that was
fun!

Friday and Saturday were just both hot days, but we made two
baptismal invites and both the people said yes to the invite!!!!

Sunday was good as welll!!!!!! Very good!!! So we went to the new
ward for the first time called Rio Sacramento, and it is a big ward, and they
work really hard. So we brought an investigator to church named Elisa, and in
this new ward there are actually young women, and so they talked with Elisa and
everything, and so everything is going good with her! Today we are going to
visit Elisa and we are planning on putting a baptismal date with her for the
21st of June, so pray for us!!! But yeah, so Sunday the meals weren't planned
out very good, so we had to eat 2 whole meals in like the space of 2 hours...oh
man.....I've never ate so much food in my life! But Sunday was very good!!!

But yeah......so everything is going very good here, apart from
the extreme heat! I've really been increasing my own testimony as I've been
reading the Book of Mormon. I started a few months ago and now I'm on 3 Nephi
20, just after Christ came to America
and everything! All of what Christ says to all of the people is just amazing,
and I don't know how people can not believe that Christ did not come here to America,
because the spirit testified of the truthfulness so strongly to me as I read
that part!!! The Book of Mormon is true, I know that without a shadow of a
doubt!

Thanks for everything, and I hope you all enjoy where you're at
this summer!! I love you all!! Have a good summer!!!